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The Hf-INATOR: A free data reduction spreadsheet for Lu/Hf isotope analysis

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During the last decade, the in situ Lu-Hf isotope methodology has been widely used in Earth sciences and the number of laboratories performing Lu-Hf analysis has increased together with dedicated scientific software. However, free and user-friendly software for the Lu-Hf data reduction is currently missing. We present the ‘Hf-INATOR’, a new interactive Excel spreadsheet, simple to use and completely free (compatible with Libreoffice and Openoffice) that performs data reduction of the Lu-Hf analytical outputs and calculates the main parameters of the Lu-Hf systematic, such as the 2σ errors, the εHf(0), the εHf(t), the TDM, the TDM C and the fLu/Hf.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) in the frame of project 2013/19519-6 and by MIUR PRIN 2015 Prot. 20158A9CBM_005. We thank Maurizio Mazzucchelli and Anna Cipriani for their encouragement in pursuing this project and stimulating discussion that helped us improve the manuscript and the spreadsheet. Prof. Miguel Basei and the technicians of the CPGEo of the Universidade de São Paulo are thanked for providing raw Yb-Lu-Hf data of GJ-1 and Mud Tank analyses to test the calculation. Prof. Vicente A.V. Girardi and Prof. Ciro T. Correia of the Universidade de São Paulo are thanked for providing zircon reference materials. We also thank Jiri Sláma and Elizabeth Bell for their useful suggestions.

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  1. Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Lago 562, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, B-05508-900, Brazil

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  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 103, I-41125, Modena, Italy

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Hf-INATOR: the free, customizable excel spreadsheet for the Lu-Hf data reduction. (XLSM 1197 kb)

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A collection of 6 zircon reference material analyses (3 of TEMORA 2 and 3 of CZ3) from Neptune instrument and the results obtained with the Hf-INATOR. (XLSX 323 kb)

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Giovanardi, T., Lugli, F. The Hf-INATOR: A free data reduction spreadsheet for Lu/Hf isotope analysis. Earth Sci Inform 10, 517–523 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-017-0303-9

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